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Other Books in the Gindylow Series: Peculiar Leeds

The Molemen of Briggate

Legend of the Disappearing Pubs of Old Leeds

The Recalcitrant Child of Little London

Carnivorous Plants of RoundhayHarpies of New Leeds

The Fire Unquenchable: Tales of New Pudsey Train

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THE GINDYLOW BRIGHT BOYS BOOK OF WONDERANDREW BOVE & SARAH PRESCOTT

Gindylow Books Ltd, Bradford, West Yorkshire

U.S.A: Gindylow Books Inc., 3300 Munson Road,

Bradford, New York

Australia: 6600 Lakey Road, Bradford, Victoria

First published 2007

Copyright Andrew Bove & Sarah Prescott 2 007

Made and printed in Great Britain by Mrs Mental

Is Our Landlady Productions, Far Headingley, Leeds

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As he moved forward into the shed, and in spite of his enthusiasm, his

movements were clumsy and uncoordinated. It wasnt just nerves though.The article had suggested that the prospective Chrononaut should dress inprotective clothing, as the scope was likely to discharge potentially dangerousforms of electromagnetic radiation. Billy had studied the illustration of a snug all-in-one padded suit and goldfish-bowl-like helmet with a mixture of envy andannoyance. Then, filled with the same bulldog spirit that had driven him tobuild his own time machine, he had found a makeshift alternative.

So, as he climbed into the Chronoscope seat and began to fire up thebatteries, he was dressed in an old leather trench-coat that had belonged tohis Granddad, a pair of motoring gloves, a pair of Wellington boots and hisDads old motorbike goggles.

Breathless and dizzy, Billy checked and re-checked the dials, watching as the power pushed them round to the correct levels. The Scope shuddered andsurged. Above him the whisk groaned into life, turning faster and faster until itwas moving at a horrendous rate, the whisk screaming as if in agony as thewhole contraption began to hop and buck beneath him.

Billy felt sick. He felt his stomach rise and smash out through his skull. Hisfeet hurt, his eyes hurt, his nose hurt, and suddenly, everything went black

Part 3 The Future

Everything was black.Billy opened his eyes and saw the blackness grow lighter until it was just

the familiar gloom of the shed.The Scope had stopped shaking and the whisk was slowing with a horrible

exhausted groan.Billy undid the seatbelt and climbed out of the seat. His protective clothes

seemed as heavy as lead and stuck wetly to his body. He was drenched insweat. He began to peel off the coat, gloves and goggles, and threw them in aheap on the floor. Now he was no longer a Chrononaut, just an ordinary boy

again, in his darned tank top and baggy shorts.Then he froze, the dials of the scope were smoking gently and he had a

quick, nervous feeling. What if the Scope was about to blow up? Wasting no time in studying the year of his arrival, he kicked at the old shed door and jumped outside.

The gang were laughing; sharp, cutting laughter that seemed tohave more in common with wild-animals than children. p14

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